Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early to tell whether the new young men are princes or pretenders. The old caliphs already have credit for a string of masterpieces, from Citizen Kane to Shane, while their successors still have most of their pet projects in scenario or on camera. Hollywood is waiting to see whether they are merely doing cosmetic surgery or whether they can truly change the town...
...more time to public relations than to working out solutions to specific problems, the campaign is not just glitter and slogans. He is proposing a Council of Ecological Advisers on the Federal level to give the government basic information on the long-term consequences of what it does. A pet project is a Center for the Advanced Study of Ecosystems to provide scientific data on how the natural pieces fit together. And he looks toward establishing useful careers in environmental and population work...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The Boy and the Blind Bird, produced in Russia, tells of a boy's attempts to restore the sight of his pet pelican...
Under Louis XV, the grand gesture -that splendid self-expression of all royal stylists-degenerated so far that one royal prince built a marble mausoleum for a pet monkey named McCarthy. Similar distortions of value took place in more important aspects of public life. Diplomacy, once the French national art, so deteriorated that it came to fit the job description given by Beaumarchais, author of The Marriage of Figaro: "Spread spies, pension traitors, loosen seals, intercept letters...
...funny parodies of a Viennese neurologist who first assessed Joe's brain damage and of a pipe-sucking Anglican clergyman who is quite unstrung to hear God described as "a manic-depressive rugby footballer." To Joe Egg's mother, Sheila (Zena Walker), the child has become another pet to coddle along with cats, birds and Bri himself, who has never quite grown...